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A model of a malaria-infected red blood cell may lead to better ways to treat malaria, according to a team of engineers and molecular biologists who investigated how this parasite infection causes the red blood cells to stiffen.

Journey north of Scotland, round the tip of Cape Wrath (its name from the Old Norse hverfa, "to disappear"), across the treacherous race of the Pentland Firth to the wind-bared Orkney Isles, and there you'll find the ruins of Skara Brae and Maes Howe, the Stones of Stennis, the Broch of Gurness, the Ring of Brodgar.